AP - Finding the 'birthplace' of President Chester A. Arthur is easy: Turn left at Town Hall and its Chester A. Arthur Conference Room, go past Chester's Bakery and turn right on Chester A. Arthur Road.

AP - The most arid state in the nation is about to become drier.

AP - U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is 'trying to stay too long' in office and has proposed putting a limit on how long a governor can serve.

AP - Unspeakable acts happened to a woman and her young son one balmy June night in the projects. On that, everyone can agree.

AP - Firefighters are gaining ground on two large Northern California wildfires, while hundreds of residents remain under evacuation orders in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Sierra Nevada foothills.

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was recovering Monday from wounds he received after a man beat him on the head with a pipe after the mayor tried to assist a grandmother screaming for someone to call 911.

AP - Police say a man suspected of fatally shooting three brothers at a birthday party in western Wisconsin died Monday morning at an area hospital.

AP - U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her run for Texas governor Monday with a sharp blast at Gov. Rick Perry, saying he has overstayed his welcome with an administration marked by arrogance and 'tragic' mistakes.

AP - The issue of allowing people in same-sex relationships to serve as pastors is expected to dominate this week's national convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

AP - Eleven states have said no to charter schools, one of the education reforms President Barack Obama backs. They may soon be paying a penalty for that choice.

AP - Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said Monday he won't seek a third term in 2010 because he believes governors should limit themselves to two terms in office.

AP - A group representing Roman Catholic sisters in the United States is raising concerns about why the Vatican is investigating them and who is funding the inquiry.

AP - When Christopher Newsom's bound, shot and burned body was identified, authorities warned his mother the sight would be too gruesome for her, but she insisted she had to go.

AP - The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing an off-duty police officer almost 20 years ago.

AP - A man who reported his wife missing over the weekend was arrested Monday on charges of tampering with evidence and obstructing official business after police said they found human remains in his house.

AP - Firefighters are gaining an advantage over two large Northern California wildfires, but hundreds of residents remain under evacuation orders in coastal mountain communities and the Sierra Nevada foothills.

AP - Shimon Peres has been a prime minister and a peacemaker. Now he's a poet.

AP - U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her run for Texas governor Monday with a sharp blast at Gov. Rick Perry, saying he has overstayed his welcome with an administration marked by arrogance and 'tragic' mistakes.

AP - The dirt paths that lead to Alpha Company's field headquarters are lined with overgrown grass and weeds. A canvas tent is protected by machine guns, sandbags and Army-green storage boxes. And lurking somewhere outside is the enemy: the Viet Cong.

AP - A 22-year-old former U.S. Marine has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of a Long Beach man in a drug deal dispute.

AP - A former college professor and his wife were apparently attacked and killed by nearly a dozen dogs along a rural northeast Georgia road where their bodies were found mutilated, authorities said Monday.

AP - A political consultant for New Jersey lawmakers has proposed a last-ditch effort to rid the state of political corruption: Require lie-detector tests for candidates and officeholders.

AP - One of four people facing a possible death sentence in the carjacking, rape and murder of a young Tennessee couple was a 'coward' who should have stopped the killings, his attorney said as his trial began Monday.

AP - Attorneys for a Texas judge facing misconduct charges say another judge on the state's top criminal appeals court knew a death row inmate was trying to file a last-minute appeal before being executed.

AP - A San Joaquin County grand jury has indicted a Sunday school teacher on charges she kidnapped, raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and drugged two other people.

AP - A man police say shot and killed three brothers at a weekend party before fatally shooting himself was a member of a Minnesota gang who had been convicted of two previous violent attacks, including one on a 15-year-old boy in a park.

AP - The Marriott hotel chain on Monday abandoned its legal claim that a Connecticut woman raped at gunpoint in a hotel parking garage, in front of her young children, had been careless and was partly at fault.

AP - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says all tropical storm watches have been discontinued for Ana as the storm dissipates while it moves through the Caribbean.

AP - Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett has been released from the hospital after being beaten up while trying to assist a grandmother who was screaming for someone to call 911.

AP - Virginia Davis, who appeared in Walt Disney's pioneering silent films, has died at age 90.

AP - The boyfriend of a Georgia woman who vanished near her parents' home said he overheard a struggle as the two talked by cell phone, and police are investigating whether her former job as a probation officer played a role in the disappearance.

AP - The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday the agency is no longer using arrest quotas in a program aimed at tracking down immigrants who have ignored court orders to leave the country.

AP - The skeletal remains of two infants found in the trunk of an impounded car belonging to an Illinois woman charged with leaving a newborn to freeze on a roadside were wrapped in cloth and stuffed in separate plastic bags, authorities said Monday.

AP - The ethics trial of a Texas judge who closed her court before a death row inmate could file an appeal began Monday with her lawyers suggesting she wasn't the only judge who knew a last shot at a reprieve was in the works.

AP - A jury has sentenced a Texas mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals to 99 years in prison.

AP - A driver accused of slamming head-on into a bicyclist, who was left in the car's back seat after he toppled over the roof and crashed through the rear window, was jailed Monday on an intoxication manslaughter charge.

AP - Leaders of the country's largest Lutheran denomination prayed for unity Monday as they waded into a weeklong debate over homosexuality and the clergy, while a rule change that would allow people in same-sex relationships to serve cleared its first hurdle.